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View article: Steroids for the Mind? The AI Rat Race in Education
Steroids for the Mind? The AI Rat Race in Education Open
Anxiety about falling behind can drive people to embrace emerging technologies with uncertain consequences. We study how social forces shape demand for AI-based learning tools early in the education pipeline. In incentivized experiments wi…
View article: Systemic Discrimination: Theory and Measurement
Systemic Discrimination: Theory and Measurement Open
Economists often measure discrimination as disparities arising from the direct effects of group identity. We develop new tools to model and measure systemic discrimination, capturing how discrimination in other decisions indirectly contrib…
View article: Pulling Up the Ladder: Enduring AdversityIncreases Opposition to Reform
Pulling Up the Ladder: Enduring AdversityIncreases Opposition to Reform Open
Is it correct to assume that individuals who have previously overcome adversity are more likely to help others facing similar challenges? We identify conditions where prior hardship reduces support for easing others’ obstacles. We propose …
View article: A Clean Slate: Adapting the Realization Effect to Online Gambling and Its Effectiveness in People With Gambling Problems
A Clean Slate: Adapting the Realization Effect to Online Gambling and Its Effectiveness in People With Gambling Problems Open
Betting more after losses (i.e., “loss‐chasing”) is a central clinical feature of disordered gambling. According to prospect theory, increasing risk‐seeking following losses could arise from a failure to “re‐reference.” By contrast, succes…
View article: A Cognitive Foundation for Perceiving Uncertainty
A Cognitive Foundation for Perceiving Uncertainty Open
We propose a framework where perceptions of uncertainty are driven by the interaction between cognitive constraints and the way that people learn about it-whether information is presented sequentially or simultaneously.People can learn abo…
View article: Time Preferences and Food Choice
Time Preferences and Food Choice Open
Healthy food choices are a canonical example used to illustrate the importance of time preferences in behavioral economics.However, the literature lacks a direct demonstration that they are well-predicted by incentivized time preference me…
View article: A clean slate: adapting the realization effect to online gambling and its effectiveness in people with gambling problems
A clean slate: adapting the realization effect to online gambling and its effectiveness in people with gambling problems Open
Betting more after losses (i.e. ‘loss chasing’) is a central clinical feature of disordered gambling. According to Prospect Theory, increasing risk-seeking following losses could arise from a failure to ‘re-reference’. By contrast, success…
View article: Superiority-Seeking and the Preference for Exclusion
Superiority-Seeking and the Preference for Exclusion Open
We propose that a person’s desire to consume an object or possess an attribute increases in how much others want but cannot have it. We term this motive imitative superiority-seeking and show that it generates preferences for exclusion tha…
View article: Replication data for: Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination: An Identification Problem
Replication data for: Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination: An Identification Problem Open
Data and do files (STATA and R) for replication. See the included "ReadMe.pdf" for instructions.
View article: Superiority Seeking Replication Package
Superiority Seeking Replication Package Open
Replication package for analyses in "Superiority Seeking and the Preference for Exclusion."
View article: Superiority Seeking Replication Package
Superiority Seeking Replication Package Open
Replication package for analyses in "Superiority Seeking and the Preference for Exclusion."
View article: Superiority Seeking Replication Package
Superiority Seeking Replication Package Open
Replication package for analyses in "Superiority Seeking and the Preference for Exclusion."
View article: Replication package for Superiority Seeking and the Preference for Exclusion (previously titled Mimetic Dominance and the Economics of Exclusion)
Replication package for Superiority Seeking and the Preference for Exclusion (previously titled Mimetic Dominance and the Economics of Exclusion) Open
Replication package for Superiority Seeking and the Preference for Exclusion (previously titled Mimetic Dominance and the Economics of Exclusion). Manuscript Number 29719. It contains the data for Studies 1-5.
View article: Replication package for Superiority Seeking and the Preference for Exclusion (previously titled Mimetic Dominance and the Economics of Exclusion)
Replication package for Superiority Seeking and the Preference for Exclusion (previously titled Mimetic Dominance and the Economics of Exclusion) Open
Replication package for Superiority Seeking and the Preference for Exclusion (previously titled Mimetic Dominance and the Economics of Exclusion). Manuscript Number 29719. It contains the data for Studies 1-5.
View article: Replication data for: Behavioral Food Subsidies
Replication data for: Behavioral Food Subsidies Open
Review of Economics and Statistics: Forthcoming